Henri Frager

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Henri Frager (born March 3, 1897 in Paris , † October 5, 1944 in Buchenwald concentration camp ) was a French architect and resistance fighter during the Second World War.

Life

Henri Jacques Paul Frager was the son of Alphonse Jean Frager and Eugénie Louis Adolpine Sauvier. Frager was a soldier in the First World War. He then studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris and became an architect in Nice . He was drafted again in World War II.

After the French defeat in 1940, he worked for the French resistance network, which was led by André Girard , and under the code name "Paul" for the British secret service Special Operations Executive (SOE), Section F. Frager smuggled weapons in cooperation with the British to France. He was repeatedly ordered through Vichy France to North Africa and from there to London .

In 1942, eighteen-year-old Jorge Semprún also worked for him. Frager was betrayed to the Germans and arrested on July 2, 1944 by the German agent Hugo Bleicher (1899–1982). He was imprisoned in Fresnes and deported to the Neue Bremm prison and from there to the Buchenwald concentration camp on August 8, 1944 in a transport of resistance fighters, which included Stéphane Hessel . Semprun had been imprisoned there since early 1944. Frager was murdered in Buchenwald.

Frager received the Médaille de la Résistance (Rosette) posthumously . In Buchenwald his name is listed on a memorial plaque for the dead of the SOE, which was inaugurated in 2010.

literature

  • John Grehan; Martin Mace: Unearthing Churchill's secret army. The official list of SOE casualties and their stories . Barnsley, South Yorkshire 2012, ISBN 978-1-84884-794-1 . (google books)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d John Grehan, Martin Mace: Unearthing Churchill's secret army. 2012.
  2. ↑ a b Andreas Platthaus : Jorge Semprun: Survival Exercises. The man who puts the victims in the light. In: FAZ . November 8, 2013.
  3. ↑ Jorge Semprun: Survival Exercises . Translated from the French by Eva Moldenhauer . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2013.
  4. ↑ Erich Borchers: Monsieur Jean: the secret mission of a German. A. Sponholtz, Hanover 1951.
  5. ↑ a b c Page no longer available , search in web archives: memorial table and short bio , at Memorialgenweb@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / memorial-genweb.org
personal data
SURNAME Questioner, Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 1944
Place of death Buchenwald concentration camp